You can tell Moses takes the fight very seriously from round one, going to work on Nopparat with some strong body shots...where as Nopparat doesn't really start to pick it up till round 3. Nopparat favours the clinch, and likes gets in close to knee and throw.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Got some new blood this week...There's a couple more doing the challenge tonight so I'll edit this post soon!SHY PEOPLE: You don't have to do this in front of an audience! Many people came up last night and did it in front of each other. If you are interested, just speak to me after and we'll arrange something :)

Saturday, October 23, 2010

For the serious athlete training for competition, it's almost a no brainer: they want to get in the ring. They will make the time to train and go ridiculously hard until their appetites are satisfied.

For the average Joe or Jill, it isn't always so simple. School, work and other commitments can smother us and leave us gasping for just a little bit of gym time...and often times we suffocate and get none.

So what can you do?

In terms of the casual MT gym member, we usually recommend at least 2-3 days a week in order to get recovery time in, while doing it often enough to progress both physically and technically.

2-3 days is too much for some people's tentative schedules, especially the student who has commitments spewing out of their nostrils. A lot of our students are from York U, and it can really screw up the gym time. Even worse, they're not always in the greatest shape to begin with because of these harsh schedules.

Some people end up not training at all for long periods of time.

The problem with taking huge amounts of time off is that it makes the return that much harder. It can be hard to find motivation to get your conditioning or technique back when discouraged by how much it will take to do so.

If you fall under this category, I (personally) highly recommend the following:

1. If you have to, do drop ins. If you know you can't make it at least 2-3 days a week, do a drop in 1 day a week. It can be hard on the body to have a 7 day gap, but you still have an outlet to practice both the exercises we do as well as get SOME direction for your technique. It beat not having your team or instructors around to help or push you.

That way, when time frees up, you won't be learning how to do things all over again

2. When you aren't at Muay Thai, do some easy maintenance on your body at least a couple days outside of class. BLAST some mindless beats to work out to, and crank out a few sets of small exercises.

I used to do 6 sets of situps, pushups and squats on my off days (or on vacations). The number of reps per set would vary depending on how fit I was. It wasn't hard core at all, nor was it meant to be. It was supposed to be enough so that I wasn't crying over soreness when I did return to Muay Thai. These small sets didn't take much longer than 15-20 mins.

Either way, you don't have to kill yourself, and probably won't be able to do so the same way you would in class. Just put on that music to get you into a work out mood for that short period of time and bang those sets out quick. These short exercises won't be anywhere near Muay Thai, but they'll maintain something for you.

3. If one day drop in a week is all you can do for yourself, make it one solid day. Prioritize your time on that day and make it a point to give yourself the gift of a wicked work out and learning some Muay Thai.

4.Run. If you can't do anything else, running will help you tons. It's no secret that running can do great things for your conditioning, and that's why fighter's usually do a ton of it.

Everyone's fitness is different...I'd recommend a newbie try to do no more than 2k at first, and no more than 3 times a week. See how your body responds, and either add or subtract from there.

Those are just small solutions and suggestions.

If anything, the best solution is just #3. Pick whatever day you're most free (or days, if you aren't swamped), and make that your designated MT day. There's really nothing else like doing the class, and with that one day you can at least guarantee yourself something to work with once you are able to commit more days to both fitness and technique.

Your body and mind will thank you.

Every day sitting is another day deteriorating! Now stop reading this and go do some situps :)

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

We have some real troopers. Everyone who participated will get a code name specific for this challenge and have their progress recorded here. No real names will be posted.

There are still people to be tested...so watch this post for updates

If you wanna do this, it's not too late. You can always join in no matter how late!

RESULTS

Mac: 80Purple Thunder: 16Furious D: 50Captain Morgan: 70Dolph: 25

These pushups were done with a bag glove on the floor, with the athlete having to make contact with it going down and then locking their arms when going back up. FULL pushups...perfect form. For details, see: here

Keep in mind, it's not about how many they do...but how much they improve by. Next week's results will be recorded as either + or _ (ie. if Mac does 70 next week, his record will be -10).

These results will always be in relation to this week (the starting point).

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Sudsakorn is a well known Thai champ with good eyes and a knack for showmanship. It's no surprise then that he likes to drop his hands and throw a lot of high risk techniques. It's always entertaining to watch him fight.

Michael Mananquil on the other hand is a fighter from the USA who has been progressing up the ranks on the international stage...he's been fighting increasingly higher level opponents, including Malaipet. I believe he was the WBC champion

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

What? You don't know what PCM blog posts are? Well, let me back up a second, and literally spell it out for your convenience...PCM = Pushup. Challenge. Minute.

You can follow me during this challenge...OR get down and join me!

*I invite EVERYONE to join me...especially those of you that hate push ups! This is a great way to set goals for yourself in getting better at them and I'll be there to help you out every step of the way. Please see me! (PC Cam)*

The run down:

Every week I'm going to: -see how many pushups I can complete in a minute. -Just a minute on the dot. -I can stop as many times as I need, but every second resting is a pushup wasted.

I will place a bag glove on the floor, and make sure that only the pushups that make it down to the glove count towards my record.

Starting next Wednesday, the challenge is on: I will do my first minute.

The goal?To surpass my record by 30 pushups by December 1st...

Seems modest? I'll increase it if I have to.

What's the point?To be ridiculously good at push ups. You all know you want the same ;)

I invite you all to follow along with me on this journey. If you want to participate, you are more than welcome to do the challenge with me every week.

You can follow my progress here in a weekly blog post, as well as anyone who cares to join me :) If you are a genuine badass, you will do it ;)

How did I get started on this whole shebang? Well, some of you may know I grabbed the record for most consecutive proper pushups in the gym...I won't brag (...I got up to triple digits *okay, I bragged*).

But then PC Brian told me he'd been inspired by one of Ajahn's self workout routines: seeing how many proper pushups he can do in 45 minutes. PC Brian got to 1000 or something like that.

I couldn't fathom why you'd do pushups for 45 minutes straight. It seemed kind of excessive.

So I set out to do my own challenge. 1 minute may be shorter, but it's a different kind of challenge. I'm going to start with this one and see where it goes. I hope some of you will eventually come with me.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Now that Buakaw is out of K-1, I wouldn't normally post a k-1 fight. However, as I posted a while back, Sagatpet is the new Thai entering the tournament this year.

Sagatpet is a former Lumpinee and Raja champion at the featherweight and lightweight divisions. He normally fights at about 65-67 kg (145ish), which makes him about 10 pounds lighter than the max weight of K-1 (70kg/154lbs).

This is evident in his speed, but also in how he stands next to Michal Glogowski.

The two have a very competitive match in their K-1 debut.

Enjoy the fight, and remember that K-1 rules and scoring do differ in a lot of ways to Muay Thai.